In every game there are one of those moments that you look back on as a “turning point.”

Trailing 10-7 heading into the second half, the Texans had just turned over the ball for the second time, setting up the Buffalo Bills on the 19-yard line, within one play of making it a two-possession game.

Houston needed a game-changing play.

On a third down and three, Bills quarterback E.J. Manuel dropped back, looked to his right to throw a screen pass intended for Fred Jackson, once he released the ball the momentum-shifting moment happened.

With his big paws, Texans defensive end J.J. Watt leaped up coming down with his first interception of the season, then started running for the end zone.

“I was thinking it was a great block by Kareem (Jackson), that’s all I was thinking,” Watt said. “Because I know E.J. Manuel is fast, I know C.J. Spiller is fast, I know Sammy Watkins is fast and I know I’m not as fast as them. So I was thinking it was a great block by Kareem (Jackson), don’t get caught, and this is pretty cool.”

As Watt got into the open field after the block by Jackson on Manuel, all he saw was green grass, saying all he was thinking was not falling down.

“I was just trying to get in the way,” Texans cornerback Kareem Jackson said. “The big fella has some wheels on him, so I figured if I got in the way then he would take it to the house. It was a big point in the game and it was huge for us to get seven points.”

Twelve seconds and 80 yards later, Watt was high-stepping his way into the end zone, celebrating in the end zone with his teammates following his momentum-shifting pick six - which Watt doesn’t know what kind of celebration he was trying to do going in for the score saying it was a combination of the nay-nay and Deion Sanders primetime celebration moves.

As for his teammates, cornerback Darryl Morris, who recorded an interception, said it’s just what Watt does and nothing surprises them anymore on his ability.

“Man he’s awesome,” Morris said. “I remember I was covering my guy and I turn back and I see him running with the ball. I’m just like ‘of course.’ He makes plays like that in practices too. I mean he’s a high motor guy, he’s the best player on our team and he makes great plays like that when you need them the most. That’s what your best player does, he’s awesome.”

Earlier in the game, the Bills ran the same type of play, Watt said, but this time instead of going after the quarterback he attacked the screen pass.

This time with Watt going after the screen pass the way he did and the play he made on the ball, Bills running back Jackson said you just give all the credit to Watt on a fantastic play.

“That’s just what he does,” he said. “He’s a long, rangy guy that can disrupt a lot of things,” Jackson said. “That’s just a typical play that he makes. We saw that we had the read we wanted, but that’s an individual making a play. When you see something like that happen, you just have to sit back and tip your hat to a guy like that.”

As Watt took off down the field, the 71, 756 fans, which had just been silenced following the Texans turnover, came back to life rocking NRG Stadium.

“I think anytime J.J. makes a play like that, anybody on our team makes a play like that, especially at home where you get the crowd into it, I mean the roof almost came off on that one,” Texans head coach Bill O’Brien said. “I mean the crowd was so loud, it was just a great play. He’s very instinctive, great player. It really turned the game, no question about it.”

When asked if Watt had ever hear this stadium louder, the two-time pro bowl defensive end could only think of one occasion - the 2011 playoff game against the Cincinnati Bengals.

Much like in this game, except it being a playoff game, Watt intercepted an Andy Dalton pass taking it 29 yards into the end zone for the score, which at that moment proved to be the turning point of the Texans first ever playoff game making it 17-10 at the time en route to Houston’s 31-10 playoff victory.

When comparing the two plays, Watt said they are similar expect the ball wasn’t thrown as hard this time and he had to run a lot farther.

This interception return against the Bills was pretty cool, Watt said just because the way the stadium exploded, the way it changed the momentum and stopping the Bills in the redzone it’s what he and any defensive player preps and plays for, a moment like this, a game-changing play.

“That’s what you live for,” Watt said. “That’s why I worked my (butt) off all year. That’s why you work so hard, that’s why you practice, that’s why you watch film, that’s why you study, that’s why you play this game for moments like that.